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bear grylls

I watched a few during the marathon yesterday. The guy is cetainly fit, and has a bizarre affinity for diving into frozen water naked. But I think that I must have yelled like 5 times at the tv "why aren't you wearing a hat?!?!?!" During the various frozen temperature scenarios. I mean COME ON covering your head would be basic tip #1, eh?

I did get a kick out of him jumping off a cliff face to grab a birch tree, on the theory that it was springy and would lower him the 60' to the ground - except that at 20 below it's not quite as springy, so "SNAP" "PLUMMET" OOF!" But he just brushed it off and kept going - gotta give him kudos for toughness, if not smarts.
 
I like the guy. His ideas aren't always the best, but as a guy, I think I'd like to have a beer with him sometime.
 
Rat Finkenstein said:
Thanks for your clever observation of "how posts are made". You finally figured it out. Bravo! Kudos! :D
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It raises the question. What possessed you to post on something that you claim does not interest you? Not enough action in W&C today?:D
 
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I recently saw him do something I really liked.
He came upon a rattlesnake...

Now most people start backing away at this point.
But his mentality was basically: "Hey look, meat that doesn't run away!"

So he whacked it in the head with a long stick and ate it.

...and of course because he's Bear Grylls, he then used it's skin to store his own urine before charging out into desert hardpan. :rolleyes:
But my main point was the eating part which was nifty.
 
dougo83 said:
It raises the question. What possessed you to post on something that you claim does not interest you? Not enough action in W&C today?:D
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The original question was 'What do you guys think of Bear?'

'I don't give a hoot.' is a valid answer and that's basically what Rat F. said.
 
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Isn't there like a Bear Grylls checklist?
The episode is not complete unless
1.Bear drinks/eat urine or feces.
2.Bear eats a live bug/small critter.
3.Bear Jumps or climbs down (in a perilous fashion) from a ridiculous height.
4.Bear jumps into or crosses water that is incredibly cold or filled with something that may want to eat him.
5.Bear has or finds some useful piece of detritus (old tarp/parachute etc) uses it once then discards it even though it would come in handy later.

And lately he seems to want to get nekkid all the time, lol.

Feel free to add to this list in case i missed something!
:D
 
Being in Alabama as long as I have been, I took some issue with his obervations on temp extremes during the ~ Feb 'Alabama' episode from Saturday's marathon(Sub zero in winter? Sub freezing is infrequent! And - no breath showing!). Suddenly out of the canyon - and into flat woods - with swamps - and alligators? He went from northeast Alabama's Buck's Pocket or Little River Canyon, both state park areas with roads everywhere, to what must have been way into south Alabama - and who slides down feet first into a cave they can't see? Never saw anyone eat deer droppings - or tackle a wild hog. Eat a bug after cooking that hog... why? What was his water source?

Still, he would be fun on a hike - dare him to eat or drink anything. And - get lost with him isn't a problem - that sat phone, helicopter, and a warm lodge are at hand. He is entertainment - and from a chap who has really topped Everest - on foot and via a powered hang glider. Circumnavigate the British Isles in a sea kayak, etc. Get me lost somewhere and really need to survive - I'll take Les Stroud... without the harmonica!

Stainz
 
Alot of guys make a living off of surviving. RYP comes to mind. I don't mind capitalizing through surviving as long as you aren't putting anyone else at risk in the process. What I do mind, and think ridiculous, is glorifying yourself, marketing your name on clothing and products and writing books about how you were predestined to become better at surviving than anyone else when you host a TV show with pre-positioned, planned and even scripted circumstances with a support crew. Bear Grylls obviously has the knowhow and the guts and the physical ability to do alot of things other people can't. He made it through SAS training and that in itself says alot. But how he plays it off is just ridiculous.
 
fishface5 said:
I think that I must have yelled like 5 times at the tv "why aren't you wearing a hat?!?!?!"
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They don't make hat's that big ! :jerkit:
I really enjoyed when the goof was down here climbing around in the mangroves and then finally rigs a raft to go down the river.
I'm still trying to figure out where they parked his Winnebago ?
Nah. They prolly took him to the 'rabbit hole" in Jaco Beach by helicopter.:rolleyes:
 
I find his show entertaining in that occasionally I learn things, and mostly I laugh at him. He seems like a pleasant enough guy, and he's definitely got a pair (hang gliding over Everest? Ridiculous). He may do things on television that would get any normal person killed, but then, any normal person wouldn't even consider trying to traverse a gorge using a grappling hook made of rusty scrap metal and held together with a splice. All in all, an entertaining but unrealistic presentation of wilderness survival.
 
tholiver said:
Isn't there like a Bear Grylls checklist?
The episode is not complete unless
1.Bear drinks/eat urine or feces.
2.Bear eats a live bug/small critter.
3.Bear Jumps or climbs down (in a perilous fashion) from a ridiculous height.
4.Bear jumps into or crosses water that is incredibly cold or filled with something that may want to eat him.
5.Bear has or finds some useful piece of detritus (old tarp/parachute etc) uses it once then discards it even though it would come in handy later.

And lately he seems to want to get nekkid all the time, lol.

Feel free to add to this list in case i missed something!
:D
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6. Bear makes some kind of tea.
7. Bear runs fast over rough terrain.
8. Bear pokes something with his knife.
9. Bear reminds you about vitamins in pine needles.
 
I don't know if the dishonesty on his show was his doing or the producers. If he just went along with the what the producers wanted him to do then I think he could have stood up for the ethical side a little better. However I don't feel as bad about that as I would if he was the one in charge of those dishonest episodes that ended up being reworked. Since Discovery has never articulated Bears part in the dishonesty I can't say how I feel about him personally.

This is the one that cracked me up the most.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UpSlpvb1is

I do have serious issues with his show. The last thing you want to do in a survival situation is to take the chances he does. Going into a cave or climbing down a waterfall is stupid if you are lost in the wilderness. Unless your goal is to never be found again. In fairness he does often say this is the wrong thing to do in a survival situation but then he sits the bad example by doing it anyway.
 
Well, his show next Wednesday is going to show the REAL survivors....his Camera crew :D

Just like one of yous guys mentioned, they do exactly what he does, but have to lug around cameras and gear.
 
These survivor shows would otherwise be boring without some scaled up over the top drama. Just a TV show. Bear seems like a fine ole' chap. Can't stand Les Stroud. Reality TV is rediculous on all counts!
 
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